SPECIAL
ALERT:

Legislation
Introduced to Eliminate Draft Registration and Selective Service

Contact
members of Congress now

Efforts are underway to either pare down or totally disband the
Selective Service System, the agency that collects the names and
addresses of 18-year-old males for a possible future draft.

One opportunity to achieve this goal will occur when a vote on
Selective Services budget comes up in the House of Representatives
in late July. It was during the same process two years ago that
the House voted to eliminate all funds for the agency except those
needed to shut it down. Funding was restored when the Senate failed
to follow suit, but it is hoped that both the House and Senate
will agree on termination of Selective Service funds this year.

A parallel approach to the issue was initiated with the introduction
of two bills on April 26 in the House of Representatives. The
Selective Service Standby Act of 2001 (HR 1607), introduced by
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), calls for a halt to draft registration
and would place Selective Service in an inactive standby status.
HR 1597, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), would repeal the
Military Selective Service Act and completely terminate the Selective
Service System.

Both bills have been referred to the House Armed Services Committee.
DeFazio's bill has five co-sponsors: Representatives Nadler, (Barbara)
Lee, Miller, Baldwin and Stark. Co-sponsors of Pauls bill
include Representatives Baldwin, Stark, Conyers, Doolittle, Foley,
Frank, LaTourette, McKinney, Mink, Rohrabacher, Sabo, Sanders
and Sessions. Many more co-sponsors are needed before the bills
would be taken up in the committee, but the proposals can also
help galvanize support for cutting Selective Service funds during
the summer budget debate.

ACTION NEEDED: Contact your local member of the House of Representatives
and urge her/him to vote this summer to eliminate the Selective
Service budget. Also ask her/him to co-sponsor HR 1607 and HR
1597. General mailing address: Rep. ____, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515. Also, urge your two Senators to support
any efforts to do the same in the Senate: Senator ____, U.S. Senate,
Washington, DC 20510.

Please send copies of the letters you write to the Center on
Conscience and War, 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20009 http://www.nisbco.org/. CCW is coordinating lobbying on
the issue. CCW also has an "Ending Draft Registration Packet"
that includes some key arguments that can be made for ending draft
registration and Selective Service.

Efforts are underway to either pare down or totally disband the
Selective Service System, the agency that collects the names and
addresses of 18-year-old males for a possible future draft.

One opportunity to achieve this goal will occur when a vote on
Selective Services budget comes up in the House of Representatives
in late July. It was during the same process two years ago that
the House voted to eliminate all funds for the agency except those
needed to shut it down. Funding was restored when the Senate failed
to follow suit, but it is hoped that both the House and Senate
will agree on termination of Selective Service funds this year.

A parallel approach to the issue was initiated with the introduction
of two bills on April 26 in the House of Representatives. The
Selective Service Standby Act of 2001 (HR 1607), introduced by
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), calls for a halt to draft registration
and would place Selective Service in an inactive standby status.
HR 1597, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), would repeal the
Military Selective Service Act and completely terminate the Selective
Service System.

Both bills have been referred to the House Armed Services Committee.
DeFazio's bill has five co-sponsors: Representatives Nadler, (Barbara)
Lee, Miller, Baldwin and Stark. Co-sponsors of Pauls bill
include Representatives Baldwin, Stark, Conyers, Doolittle, Foley,
Frank, LaTourette, McKinney, Mink, Rohrabacher, Sabo, Sanders
and Sessions. Many more co-sponsors are needed before the bills
would be taken up in the committee, but the proposals can also
help galvanize support for cutting Selective Service funds during
the summer budget debate.

ACTION NEEDED: Contact your local member of the House of Representatives
and urge her/him to vote this summer to eliminate the Selective
Service budget. Also ask her/him to co-sponsor HR 1607 and HR
1597. General mailing address: Rep. ____, House of Representatives,
Washington, DC 20515. Also, urge your two Senators to support
any efforts to do the same in the Senate: Senator ____, U.S. Senate,
Washington, DC 20510.

Please send copies of the letters you write to the Center on
Conscience and War, 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20009 http://www.nisbco.org/. CCW is coordinating lobbying on
the issue. CCW also has an "Ending Draft Registration Packet"
that includes some key arguments that can be made for ending draft
registration and Selective Service.

Efforts are underway to either pare down or totally disband the
Selective Service System, the agency that collects the names and
addresses of 18-year-old males for a possible future draft.

One opportunity to achieve this goal will occur when a vote on
Selective Services budget comes up in the House of Representatives
in late July. It was during the same process two years ago that
the House voted to eliminate all funds for the agency except those
needed to shut it down. Funding was restored when the Senate failed
to follow suit, but it is hoped that both the House and Senate
will agree on termination of Selective Service funds this year.

A parallel approach to the issue was initiated with the introduction
of two bills on April 26 in the House of Representatives. The
Selective Service Standby Act of 2001 (HR 1607), introduced by
Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), calls for a halt to draft registration
and would place Selective Service in an inactive standby status.
HR 1597, introduced by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX), would repeal the
Military Selective Service Act and completely terminate the Selective
Service System.

Both bills have been referred to the House Armed Services Committee.
DeFazio's bill has five co-sponsors: Representatives Nadler, (Barbara)
Lee, Miller, Baldwin and Stark. Co-sponsors of Pauls bill
include Representatives Baldwin, Stark, Conyers, Doolittle, Foley,
Frank, LaTourette, McKinney, Mink, Rohrabacher, Sabo, Sanders
and Sessions. Many more co-sponsors are needed before the bills
would be taken up in the committee, but the proposals can also
help galvanize support for cutting Selective Service funds during
the summer budget debate.

ACTION NEEDED: Contact your
local member of the House of Representatives and urge her/him
to vote this summer to eliminate the Selective Service budget.
Also ask her/him to co-sponsor HR 1607 and HR 1597. General mailing
address: Rep. ____, House of Representatives, Washington, DC 20515.
Also, urge your two Senators to support any efforts to do the
same in the Senate: Senator ____, U.S. Senate, Washington, DC
20510.

Please send copies of the letters you write to the Center on
Conscience and War, 1830 Connecticut Ave., NW, Washington, DC
20009 http://www.nisbco.org/.
CCW is coordinating lobbying on the issue. CCW also has an "Ending
Draft Registration Packet" that includes some key arguments
that can be made for ending draft registration and Selective Service.

This article is from Draft NOtices, the newsletter
of the Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft (www.comdsd.org).